The Three Most Common Shells
The Solaris 8 environment provides several shells. The three most common are the Bourne shell (sh), the C shell (csh), and the Korn shell (ksh).
The Bourne shell, developed by Steven Bourne at AT&T Bell Laboratories, was the shell provided with the original Unix operating system. Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie designed and developed the Unix operating system by at Bell Labs during the 1970s.
 | The Bourne shell is the default shell for the Solaris 8 operating system. |
The C shell, developed by Bill Joy of the University of California, Berkeley, was provided with a version of the Unix operating system that was developed ...
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